5 reviews
Samurai Riot
Samurai Riot is a 2D cooperative Beat’em up Arcade game with a twist! Playing as Sukane or Tsurumaru, two charismatic warriors torn between their duty and beliefs, follow your own way of honor through multiple scenarios and story endings!
Details
- Released
- September 1, 2017
- Developer
- Wako Factory
- Genres
- Fighting · Action · Hack and slash/Beat 'em up · Adventure · Indie
- Publisher
- Wako Factory
- Platforms
- PC
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Samurai Riot Reviews
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Follow the adventures of Sukane and Tsurumaru in this hand-painted 2D co-op beat-'em-up.
A promising attempt to make a good beat 'em up game that never moves past the attempt stage.
While Samurai Riot has decent gameplay and an interesting choose-your-own-path mechanic, I cannot recommend anyone buy Samurai Riot for the Switch right now due to the save erasing bug.
Samurai Riot has a number of novel ideas, but the repetitive levels and wonky engine undo any good will. Those who are looking for the next coming of the beat-em-up will likely be disappointed with this title.
Samurai Riot is a new beat-‘em-up style arcade game developed for PC by Wako Factory. Arcade style games have a special place in my heart, as it’s one of the earliest forms of gaming, and I may hold standards too high for arcade style games. It isn’t easy to find a genuinely good beat-‘em-up arcade game these days, and Samurai Riot attempts to combine this style with a unique storyline that is flexible with player choice.
Samurai Riot aims to deliver a fun, new beat-em up game set in Japan’s age of ninja and samurai. Story I haven’t gotten too far into the story (for reasons I’ll explain later), but it’s pretty standard for these beat-em-up games. You are Tsurumaru (a samurai) or Sukane (a ninja) trying to subdue